INTERVIEWS

‘This is perhaps the first organism whose evolutionary history was in a computer’

Professor Michael Levin on his 'living robots', and the use of bio-electricity to reverse birth defects 

"The wave has only got bigger"

Co-inventor of CRISPR gene-editing technology Jennifer Doudna gives her view on one of the biggest science stories of the decade

"All I'm presenting is a range of possibilities"

Theoretical epidemiologist Professor Sunetra Gupta  discusses alternative models of how and when COVID-19 might have spread through the UK

"It's a Wild West online"

Superiorauthor Angela Saini discusses bias in science and her attempts to get online scientific information regulated

'There’s something new every day, after all these years'

Alison Woollard talks to geneticist Jonathan Hodgkin about a century of remarkable progress in genetics, and what they both owe to mutant worms

‘‘There were walls of fish, so many you could hardly see the corals”

Professor Callum Roberts on how a network of protected areas on the high seas can help save marine biodiversity 

The Matter of Life

Physicist Sriram Ramaswamy talks to Tom Ireland about his influential work on the properties of active matter, and how physicists and biologists can work better together